Mannheim: Churfurstl. Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey, 1772. [16],358,[1]pp. plus two engraved plates (on one sheet) and folding map. Small octavo. Modern half vellum and marbled boards, spine gilt. A bit of light age toning and an occasional light fox mark. Three small purple ink spots in lower portion of map. Near fine... More

[Hanover]. 1755. 16pp. Dbd. Some damage from spine affecting guttering, else very good. A treaty between Britain and the German Reichsfreie territory of Hesse-Cassell securing the support of the German forces when necessary in exchange for monetary compensation. This secured mercenary troops to fight in the Seven Years War.More

London. 1718. 45pp. Dbd. Printed in two columns. Very good. The text of a treaty between the Prince George and Prince Charles VI. The treaty obligates Britain and the Holy Roman to a mutual defense pact against the Ottoman Empire. "That the Design and End of the Defensive Alliance be... More

Harrisburg, Pa. 1943. xviii,425pp. plus illus. Portrait. Original cloth. A few marginal pencil notes. Very good in somewhat chipped dust jacket. History of the society of religious German exiles and their colonization of Harmony, Pa., New Harmony, In., and Economy, Pa., beginning with the embarkation of George Rapp for America... More

Boston: Allen and Ticknor, 1832. 178pp. 12mo. Dbd. Some pencil marginalia, an occasional fox mark, but generally quite clean internally. About very good. Untrimmed. This is apparently the first American printing of the story of Caspar (also spelled Kaspar) Hauser, published a year before his death. Hauser was a foundling... More

New Braunfels. 1846. Printed indenture, 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, executed in ink. Some old folds, light soiling, and "55" written in red pencil in top blank margin. Very good. Printed indenture, executed in ink and signed in full by John O. Meusebach as Trustee of the German Emigration... More

Weisbaden. 1850. 4pp. Folding folio sheet, printed on 2 pages, 2 pages blank tables. An unissued bond for financing the German colonization effort in Texas, as part of a proposed float of 1,600,000 gulden. This bond was signed in manuscript by a representative of the Verein but is unnumbered and evidently was not issued.More

Prussia. 1848-1850. [1]p. printed on a bifolium, with an additional page of manuscript annotations on verso. Folio. Previously folded, with separations along fold lies. Light dampstaining and tanning. Good. A Prussian passport for Carl Werderbrück, documenting his travels in central Europe from 1848 to 1850. The first page, completed in... More

Berlin. 1848-1849. Nine broadsides, various sizes. Folded. Some wrinkling and chipping. One broadside split along central fold. Light tanning and foxing. About very good. Nine German political broadsides addressing aspects of the 1848 Revolution in Prussia. Along with citizens of several European countries, German citizens in a number of states... More

London: Printed for J. Owen, 1796. [4],88pp. Dbd. Very good. Discusses the probable outcomes of the war with revolutionary France, with special attention to central and northern Europe and to holdings in the East and West Indies.More

London. 1939-51. Fifteen original parts in wrappers, in two volumes. Original printed wrappers bound in stiff wrappers. Indexes on covers. Very good. Topics include: English and foreign bibles, John Bunyan, Lewis Carroll, continental books including incunabula, bibliographical reference books, English theology, English pamphlet literature of the 17th-19th centuries, voyages, travels..... More

Cedar Rapids: Torch Press, 1909. Two volumes. xv,628; xii,768pp. plus plates. Original red publisher's cloth, spines gilt. Extremities rubbed. Modern bookplate on front pastedowns. Internally clean. Very good. Memoirs of German-born lawyer and politician Gustave Koerner. Koerner, who settled in Illinois, was an early member of the Republican party and... More

London. 1874. viii,590pp. plus thirty-five plates (including four chromolithographs) and two maps (one folding). Frontis. Illus. Contemporary three-quarter calf and cloth, spine gilt. Neatly rebacked, original spine laid down. Occasional minor offsetting. Very good. An account from the second German Arctic expedition from which it was concluded from geological, climatic... More

[Germany? n.d., ca. 1802]. Engraved oval portrait, 2 inches round, on a 5 1/2 x 3 inch sheet with an ornamental border. Light wear. Very good. An interesting image of Haitian leader Toussaint L'Ouverture. This small portrait shows him from the shoulders up. He is standing as if in profile... More